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Show l ? v. WEATHER UTAH Partly cloudy sooth portion, afternoon cloudiness north portion, scattered thunderstorms thunder-storms south portion, somewhat warmer Sunday. Temperatures-High Temperatures-High S2 Low 58 PrecipiUtion 1.62 TEMPERATURES Max. Min. Max. MM. Provo 3 5 San Fran.. 63 54 Salt Laka.-- 1 SO Loa Aaala S3 0 Ogden S3 CO Las Vegaa. 10? 71 Boia 7 55 Denver ... M 60 Portland . . M 54 Chlcaco . . 73 52 Seattle SO M Atlanta . . M 67 Yellowstone 31 New York . 73 60 ttdh VOL. 24, NO. 13 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. .SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1946 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1947 Labor Convention Won by Provo AFL Convention At Price Votes to Meet In Provo Next Year PRICE Provo was named nam-ed the site for the 1947 convention con-vention of the Utah Federation Federa-tion of Labor as the 42nd annual confab of the organization organi-zation drew near its close at Price Saturday. Delegates reelected Fullmer Full-mer H. Latter as Utah Federation Federa-tion of Labor president, the incumbent in-cumbent winning by a wide majority ma-jority over J. H. Derbidge, 115 votes to 68. Both are of Salt Lake City. J. R. Wilson, Salt Lake City, was reelected secretary-treasurer by the same majority received by Latter. He defeated Don R. Evans, Ev-ans, Salt Lake City. All other Utah AFL officers offic-ers were re-elected with the exception of R. N. Burkhardt of Salt Lake City, who was ousted as second vice president presi-dent by L. E. Anderson, also or Salt Lake City. Other officers seated were: first vice president, W. I. Lowe, Ogden, unopposed; third vice president, John N. McKean, Salt Lake, who defeated R. M. La-mont. La-mont. Salt Lake; fourth vice president, Herman Bell, Ogden, unopposed; fifth vice president, R. S. Roberts, Salt Lake, who defeated de-feated James Anderson, Salt Lake. Sixth vice president, Farrell Liljenquist, Provo, incumbent, unopposed; seventh vice president, presi-dent, John M. Holden, Carbon, unopposed; eighth vice president, presi-dent, Alma M. Johnson, Logan, unopposed; ninth vice president, F. W. Hart, Ogden, unopposed. Tenth vice president, R. M. Anderson, Provo, incumbent, unopposed; un-opposed; eleventh vice president, J. Ryman Peterson, Brigham City, unopposed; twelfth vice president, William Wilde, Devil s Slide, unopposed.- - z - The invitation to take the 1947 annual convention to Provo was submitted by Mayor Mark Anderson, An-derson, who flew to Price by plane. Mayor Anderson took with him two dozen ears of special spe-cial corn developed by L. L. Bunnell, Bun-nell, one dozen going to Mayor (Continued on Pace Two) ThunderStorm Brings Record Downpour Here Mingled reports of benefit and damage were received Saturday as preliminary accounts began to come in on the heavy storm which struck Utah county early Saturday morning. The heaviest rainfall in many years for a two-hour period was recorded between 1 and 3 a. m.. with 1.52 inches. Total for the 24-hour period was 1.62 inches. The storm likewise set a longtime long-time record for a pyrotechnic display, dis-play, with lightning flashing at intervals only a few second apart in an almost continuous illumination. illum-ination. . Pleasant Grove suffered considerable con-siderable damage in its northeast portion. The mill ditch which runs from Grove creek overflowed overflow-ed its banks and washed rubbish, dirt and rocks onto lawns and gardens in that area. Several Pleasant Grove families awoke Saturday morning to find their basements flooded with water. Roads of the area were flooded with mud and rocks. The heavy rainfall of the past weekend was believed beneficial to agriculture in general, but some fears were held for the tomato crop, now ready for harvesting. Although forestry officials expected ex-pected some flash flood damage east of Provo because of the severity and suddenness, the Saturday Sat-urday morning storm, none had been reported by Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Mayor Mark Anderson, on an inspection of the Rock canyon area where the city has its reservoir, reser-voir, reported the water running clear from the canyon Saturday forenoon, with apparently, no flood danger. The revegetation program undertaken by the forestry for-estry service over the past few years east of Provo by a program of grazing control, is believed to be the chief factor for lack of a flood Saturday morning. Surprisingly little damage resulted re-sulted to the city's electric system,) with power being knocked out ofj one circuit, an industrial area in the southern part of town, only for one minute, according to Superintendent Elmer Jacob. Fuses were blown in several homes, but no power failure of anv magnitude resulted. Consideiable flood damage in Spanish Fork was reported over the weekend from sudden rains, intermixed with hail. Loosening of several utility poles by excess washing was reported. OP A Chief Plans Action Against Price Chiseling Higher Meat Price Ceilings Coming For Natural Reasons, Porter Says; Drive Planned To Round Up Black Marketeers WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U.R) Price Administrator Paul A. Porter disclosed today that the government will announce in a few days "the toughest program yet" to combat the black market when price ceilings are put back on meat Sept. 9. He acknowledged that new price ceilings may be higher high-er than those which prevailed June 30, when price controls temporarily expired. And he predicted that meat par- ticularlv Dork will be scarcer next month, but for "natural reasons" and not because price opntrols are being restored. Serving blunt notice to a no-holds-b a r r e d campaign against price chiseling, Porter Port-er said In his weekly radio speech (ABC) that "From now on out the word will be black marketeers beware!" Porter said the anti-black market mar-ket campaign is being mapped out by the justice, treasury and sericulture departments and OPA. He gave no details. Earlier,"1 that only 159 per cent of the , . . ..I housing units started in the first in the week, however, he said;six months of 1946 had OPA would double its enforce-1 finished. Of 888 realtor-builders ment staff to about 2500 agents I participating in the survey. 190 and -throw the book" at the black I marketeers. But the chamber of commerce of the United States doubted the eovernment's ability to stop the black market, saying "Old timers who remember how the enforcement enforce-ment of prohibition worked in the 20's are inclined toward a 'show me' attitude now." "Until OPA demonstrates otherwise." oth-erwise." it said in a weekly report, re-port, "markets are skeptical of the capacity of the government to roll back meat price without diverting supply into the hands of black market operators." The chamber attacked price control as "the best way to perpetuate per-petuate shortages." The government's price con'rol program also came under attack! hv th American Federation of Labor, but on a different score, Robrt J Watt. AFL reoresen- tative on the wage stabilization board, criticized what he said was the government's failure to keep'cide on these points on which prices in line. He said in a radio speech (ABC) that workers are caught in a price squeeze "ag-1 eravated bv the Bovernmenfsl rigid freeze of wages." Watt said that under the cir- cumstances the AFL has become , cumpicieiy uismusiuncu 11 bureaucratic control of prices and wages" and anxiously looks forward for-ward "to the day when such controls con-trols can be wiped out entirely." He said that day will come only when production is boosted enough to meet demand, de-mand, Watt said. AFL members mem-bers now are "bending all their efforts to boost production produc-tion in every direction." These developments came at ithe end of a week which saw the OPA wind up a 30-day spree of price boosts required under the new price control law. The new schedule of meat pric es has not been announced, but beef prices are expected to be one to two cents higher than June 30 and lamb six to seven cents a pound higher. As for predicted meat shortages short-ages next month. Porter appealed to the public not to make OPA the "scape-goat and whiprng boy." He noted that the hog run is traditionally low in September. Septem-ber. URGES UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING LOWELL, . Mass., Aug. 24 (U.R) A universal military training program was urged today by Monsignor Edward L. Smith of Sioux City, la., national chaplain chap-lain of the American Legion, because be-cause "there will always be "tears so long as human being populate the earth." Jester Moves Out in Front In Texas Governor's Race DALLAS, Tex.. Aug. 24 (U.R) Railroad Commissioner Beauford Jester, self-styled "people's candidate" can-didate" and a middle-of-the road conservative, moved out in front in the Texas governor's race tonight to-night in first official returns from the Texas election bureau. With only a scattering of the expected 1,000,000 votes tabulated. tab-ulated. Jester held nearly a two-to-one lead over Homer P. Rainey, liberal and former Uni versity of Texas president With 51,093 votes counted up!" against Jesse Owens, 28,650, to 7:00 p. m. (CST) in 15 of the state's 254 counties, none complete. com-plete. Jester had 32,877 and Rainey 18.216. As a . likely running matei Nation's Housing Outlook Darkr Survey Indicates WASHINGTON. Aug. 24 (U.R) , , , u tt i. The national association of real CUSed Greece before the Unit-estate Unit-estate boards said tonight that ed Nations security council of me nation s-nousing program is bogged down and that little hope for improvement is in sight. It reported that a survey show ffid4 had been unable to start at all. Nearlv half of the 698 who had started construction said that government "red tape" was the; major bottleneck and caused theicK against ureece shortage of materials. Meanwhile, the veterans of foreign wars asked UNRRA Director General Fiorello H. LaGuardia to explain why UNRRA is busily buying cement block machines and other items for export abroad when they are needed in the housing program here. VFW Commander-in-Chief Joseph Jo-seph M. Stack asked that VFW be tn.yi't.cd,, P? all "V -hip-ments of "vitally needed housing materials and equipment to any foreign nation." Reconversion Director John R Stpplman is extorted to take ! ihand in a dispute over slashing commercia construction to boost' home-building for veterans. Steelman reportedly must de- Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt and Civilian Production Administrator John Small dis- agree 1. How much non-residential I mnctnirtiAn ivtuct Ko rtt Wvatt favor, a onc.third reduction, Sma says it already is at ..dan. gerous levels. 2. Whether Wyatt or Small will have future authority to approve commercial and institutional con struction. Wvatt revealed that he has re- ceived another no-strike pledge from a labor group in connection with the housing program. This Utahn Sees Threat to Peace Treaties In Lack Of Liaison Between Byrnes and Senators ; r u J? SENATOR THOMAS against the Republicans in November's No-vember's general election, which nearly always has been a "walkaway" "walk-away" for the Democrats, Jester may have State Sen. Allan Shivers, Shiv-ers, who held a 30.910 to 17,589 lead over newspaperman and author Boyce House. Incumbent J. E. McDonald was trailing R. E. McDonald in the agriculture commissioner's race 24.952 to 22.26 while criminal appeals justice Tom L. Beau-champ Beau-champ got away to a lead in his to 19,097 The negro vote was sizeable but apparently would not reach the total cast in the previous primary in most cities. Yugoslavs' C U united States Ukraine Asks UN Probe Of Greek Policy Soviet Socialist Republic Asks Matter Be Placed on Agenda NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (U.R) The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist So-cialist Renublie tonicht ac- trying to provoke "armed conflict" in the Balkans and demanded that the council investigate in-vestigate "the policy of the Greek government" toward Albania. Greek iVemler Constantin Tsaldaris, at a reception last night at which he was host, told a galaxy of peace conference del- egates that the Ukraine request o the security council was a "combined Slav-Communist at- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitri Manuilsky submitted the formal request for security council coun-cil consideration in a cable to the United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, he asked that the matter be placed on the agenda for the "next meeting" of the council 10:30 a. m. (EDT) Wednesday. Manuilsky charged that Greek-provoked conflicts on thcjGreek - Albanian, border were endangering "the maintenance main-tenance of International peace and security." He said the presence of Brit- jlsh troops in Greece and 'thc uireci imervenucn oi me nriusn military representatives into me internal affairs" of Greece was a factor in Greek governmental policy. Manuilsky said the Greeks were firing at Albania border guards and peasants and penetrating into in-to Albania territory with "the obvious object of provoking an armed conflict to serve as pretext pre-text for the wrpsting of the southern south-ern part of Albania in favor of Greece." The Ukrainian action increased the tension created in UN cir- clcs by the threat of a United States' demand for prompt sc- icurity council action against; (Continued on Page Two) By JOHN L. STEELE WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U.R Sen. Elbert Thomas. D., Utah, said tonight that failure pf the state department to maintain close relations with the senate threatens bitter controversy over At-. . . I 1 1 . ine peace treaties ana may ieaa 10 their rejection. Thomas is a ranking member mem-ber of the senate foreign relations re-lations committee. He wrote a high state department official of-ficial that the lack of liaison on foreign policy is serious. It has become so serious, Thomas said, that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' mission to the Paris peace conference may be thwarted when the final treaty drafts are submitted to the senate! for ratification. j Thomas warned that the grow-; ing void between the department and congress may serve to repeat the history of the years following follow-ing World War I, when a rebellious rebel-lious senate steamrolled President Wilson's plan for world organization organiza-tion and peace settlements. The veteran legislator made clear that he felt the department's relations with capitol hill, particularly par-ticularly with the powerful foreign fore-ign relations group, have deteriorated de-teriorated since the days of former form-er secretary of state Cordell Hull. He recalled that Hull conducted con-ducted regular Saturday seminars sem-inars of the progress of world affairs with at. least five committee members. In addition, an eight-man advisory ad-visory group on peace settlements settle-ments and international organization or-ganization regularly was called In for consultation. The clust: liaison weakened during the tenuVe of former secretary sec-retary Edward R. Stettinius, and has practically vanished under (Continued on rage Two) Ambassador (J V x Norman Makin. Australia's Minister for Navy. Munitions and Aircraft during the war, pauses in San Francisco en route to Washington, D. C, where he will fill his appointment ap-pointment as Ambassador to the U. S. Makin is first Australian Aus-tralian overseas representative representa-tive to be appointed to rank of ambassador. Peace Conference May Be Stymied By New Dispute PARIS. Aug. 24 (UR) The Italian, Hungarian and Romanian peace treaty commissions met and adjourned today without accomplishment accomp-lishment and it appeared that the 21-nation Paris peace conference was stymied by the U, S. -Yugoslav dispute. Delegates generally agreed that the conference was in danger of collapsing completely, leaving Europe still technically in a state of war. if cither the United States or Yugoslavia insisted on fighting fight-ing out their battle before the United Nations in New York. Some technical commissions commis-sions might be able to continue con-tinue If the dispute shifted to New York, it was believed, but for all practical purposes the conference would have to suspend its main tasks of wr'ting peace treaties for Italy. Romania. B u Igaria, Hungary and Finland. Both the Hungarian and Romanian Ro-manian commissions became involved in-volved in discussion today and members insisted that their work was hamstrung by failure of the conference secretariat to furnish translated copies of documents so that the delegates would know what they were talking about. Today's business on the treaty commissions called for a paragraph para-graph by paragraph discussion of the treaty preambles. Chairman Sinicha Stankovich of the Hungarian Hun-garian commission ordered the preamble read and the first half hour was devoted to that repe-titidVi repe-titidVi in three languages despite the fact that the drafts have been before delegates for more than four weeks. The Italian economic commission commis-sion met hopefully during the afternoon, planning to examine economic clauses in the Italian treaty, especially those on reparations. repar-ations. However, no documents concerned con-cerned with the proposed amendments amend-ments were available and after an hour's useless talk the meeting was adjourned until Monday. I V & ! L Ice Machine Shipment to Yugoslavia Halted WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U.R) A 70-year-old "plain citizen," who screamed long and loud when he heard about ice machines going to the Yugoslavs, appeared tonight to-night to have succeeded in. stopping stop-ping a shipment of surplus American war goods to the country coun-try which shot down two non-surplus non-surplus American planes. William G. Williams, consulting consult-ing engineer whose office is across the street from the state department, depart-ment, got boiling "mad when he read about American planes being be-ing shot down in Yugoslavia. And when he turned the page and read how his country had given the Yugoslavs millions in war aid, he got angrier still. But he really got burned up when he saw that 80 ice-making machines were being readied for shipment to Yugoslavia through 26 Jewish Immigrants Escape Camp Tension Unprecedented In Tel Aviy; Troop Movements Stepped Up JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug. 24 (U.R) The British army announced today that 26 Jewish illegal immigrants had escaped from the Ath-lith Ath-lith detention camp in north Palestine, and military sources sourc-es said the underground army Hagana undoubtedly had helped them. The Jews slipped out under the fence Thursday night. One was Caught as he was making his way to a communial settlement, but there was no trace of the other 25 and it was doubted that the British would make much of an effort to catch them. Instead of 1,500 refugees being. let out of the Athlith camp next month, it was believed, the British will let out only 1,475. The camp holds 3,703 Jews who arrived illegally before August 12, when the British stopped immigration im-migration altogether. They are being let out at the rate of 1.500 a month the legal immigration quota. A dispatch from Tel Aviv described de-scribed tension there as "unprecedented." "un-precedented." though it was the Jewish Sabbath. . Troop , j9Xzl men is were reported around me city's outskirts, and throughout last night, Hagan's secret radio. "The Voice of Israel," warned Jews to look out for another military operation and curfew. (The Exchange Telegraph agency reported that a new underground un-derground radio, the "Voice of Tel Aviv." had provoked excitement excite-ment with' an announcement that it had come into possession of documents proving that a new British military operation was imminent.) Truman Talks With Byrnes U. S. NAVAL BASE, Bermuda, Aug. 24 (U.R) President Truman held another trans-Atlantic telephone tele-phone conference with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in Paris yesterday, Presidential Press Secretary Sec-retary Charles G. Ross revealed today. Ross said that Byrnes, making his second call this week to the vacationing president, gave Mr. Truman "a general fill-in on what is happening in Paris." While Ross did not say so, it was presumed that Mr. Truman and Byrnes discussed the U. S.Yugoslav S.-Yugoslav crisis which has overshadowed over-shadowed any development at the Paris peace conference this week. Ross said Mr. Truman still was talking about yesterday's fishing trip duripg which the president caught three fish weighing a total of 13 pounds. He said the discussion discus-sion invloved "about five or six that got away" fish that Mr. Truman was sure were bigger than those he caught. The ones he caught were on the president's dinner menu last night. Ross thought Mr. Truman would go ashore Sunday for church services, but that plans were indefinite. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, who left the presidential party at Quonset, R. I., last Monday, rejoined it today. He flew here from Washington in a navy plane. UNRRA. Williams started phoning phon-ing government agencies and UNRRA itself. He told them he i didn't like the situation. By the time he was through talking to the state and treasury departments and te war assets administration, officials decided to take another look at the ice machine deal. Sale of the machines ma-chines to UNRRA was ordered held up. WAA is trying to determine de-termine whether priorities were properly handled. Williams found out through his many phone calls that UNRRA also planned to send five refrigerator refrig-erator barges to Yugoslavia. They were worth $44,880 apiece. He got an investigation started on this, too. ' After it was all over, Williams said he was tired, but added that "they've got my goat." mplly Ulfeilnnia Amends Must Be Made For Fliers' American Airforce Flights To Be Resumed On Route Flown By Two Forced-Down Planes as Tito Orders Shooting Stopped By EDWIN H. NEWMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U.R) The state department said tonight that Yugoslavia apparently has complied with the U. S. ultimatum. But the incident will not be closed until Yugoslavia makes amends for shooting down two unarmed un-armed U. S. army transport planes with a loss of five lives. Yugoslav Marshal Tito has given orders that no foreign for-eign planes over Yugoslavia are to be shot at under any" circumstances from now on. (U. S. European headquarters in Frankfurt, German v. announced that American air- force flights from Vienna to Udine, Italy, will be resumed to morrow. It was this route the 1 1 two forced-down planes were flying.) Yugoslav compliance appeared to have averted a grave crisis in U. S. - Yugoslav relations. On the basis of the wording of i the U. S. ultimatum, it also ap peared to have eliminated the American threat to take its case fceiora tho United-Nations security secur-ity council. A state department an-noucement an-noucement said this govern-1 govern-1 ment will determine its course In the light of Yugoslav Yugo-slav efforts to "right the wrong done" In shooting down the two American planes, and in the light of evidence ev-idence obtained from survivors. surviv-ors. It said full reports on what Yugoslavia's efforts to make amends hav- not been received here yet. Nor have reports of the survivor- accounts, which are hinff mad dirrtlv to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., at parjs would be no further announcement announce-ment on this government's atti- . . . . , ! 1 kJ WWII LSIV tude until such reports have beenjand maintain e in , hgry received and examined It appeared, however, that the crisis had blown over, or that at least it had been greatly minimized min-imized by Yugoslav acquiesence to U. S. demands as set forth in its 48-hour ultimatum. It was revealed that a letter from Marshal Tito to U. S. Ambassador Am-bassador Richard C. Patterson, Jr., agreeing to the U. S. demands was delivered 16 hours before the ultimatum was to have expired at 9:15 a.m. (EST) today. Announcement that Tito had complied with the ultimatum was based on messages received by the department from Patterson who conferred Thursday with Tito Ti-to at Bled. Patterson said Tito received him in a "friendly manner," and that the Yugoslav strongman emphasized em-phasized he was "extremely sorry" sor-ry" for the shooting down of the two American planes one on Aug. 9 in which there was no loss of life and the other on Aug. 19 in which all five men aboard were killed. Patterson said Tit has riven orders thai "no foreign for-eign planes, are to be shot at under any circumstances" (Continued on Page Two) "What I intend to do is find out who makes the decisions to send stuff like this over there." he said. "As public servants, it's up to government people from the president to the pound keep er to listen to what I a plain American citizen have to say. Williams Just couldn't see why Yugoslavia should be allowed to shoot down American airplanes and then continue to get a lot of U. S. war goods. UNRRA, largely suported by U. S. cash, said American-Yugoslav troubles had nothing to do with it. "We're not in the business of economic sanctions." a spokesman said. "This Is an International organization, representing 48 na ttons. Two of-them happen to be the United States and Yugo slavia With urn I ; ' Stelle Advocates Fighter Escorts Death Over Yugoslavia CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Aug. 24 0J.R) The United States should send fighter escorts along with its planes and "invite Tito's flyers fly-ers to -come upland mc whv -get- -shot down." John Stelle. national nation-al commander of the American Legion declared" here today. Stelle. addressing the Wyoming Wyo-ming state convention of the American Legion, said, "The shadow of war is falling across our back door and the nation must prepare for it." Some 1.500 Wyoming Legionnaires Leg-ionnaires broke into thunderous thunder-ous applause when Stelle advocated ad-vocated use of fighter escorts to prevent further shooting down of American planes by the Yugoslavs. Mrs. Walter G. Craven, national ' president of the American Legion auxiliary, said in an address to a j joint session of the state Legion anu auxiliary inai universal niiii-tary niiii-tary training is necessary to provide pro-vide the United States with the power to protect its own peace and disorganized world." America's future, she said, is "clouded by the possibility of another war an atomic war which would endanger the very existence of civilization. Stelle also urged federal action ac-tion against what he called the "Russian fifth-column in the United States, represented by 150 so-called 'Communist-front' organizations," or-ganizations," Stelle said. "The country must be alerted and never let reactionaries reac-tionaries who oppose the air program do what they did to Gen. Billy Mitchell." he said. "We must stand behind the air forces and a fighting air army as our protector and defender de-fender of the future." Referring again to the shooting shoot-ing down of American planes by Yugoslav pilots, Stelle told the Wyoming Legionnaires: "If we were the parents of those American flyers who were shot down, we'd feel our country ought to do something about a puppet dictator who permits such a thing." The two top leaders of the American Legion and its auxiliary auxil-iary addressed the Wyoming. Legionnaires and their wives on the closing days of the three-day convention. Reece Visions GOP Victory WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 XUJ5) Chairman Carroll Reece of the., Republican national committed said today that country - wide-,-election trends show that "the. people are going to vote a GOP congress this fall to get the govern gov-ern ment out of their hair." Recce, who returned last night from western tour, predicted coast-to-coast GOP gains in the November? balloting. . He . .cited Tuesday's New York election results re-sults as evidence of -waning CIO ' political action V.o ramittee strength. - T- He said his tour convinced him. the Republicans -will win control ' of both the senate and house at the polls next November. - |